[Flemish school] Attributed to VAN DIEPENBEECK, Abraham Virgin "Immaculate Conception". 17th c Drawing, black chalk, pen and brown ink, x cm, laid paper with watermark (unidentified), signed (by a later collector?) on lower right margin "Ab. Diepenbeek" and n. (sl. waterstain mainly along right margin and a smaller stain to left margin, old creases on lower half). Mounted on paper support. The Holy Virgin (dressed here as a nun surrounded by three winged putti with the Holy Spirit descending in a nimbus. The iconography refers to the Book of Genesis (3:15), where the trickery of the snake is undone through Virgin Mary and the birth of the Messiah.
[Flemish school] Attributed to VAN DIEPENBEECK, Abraham Virgin "Immaculate Conception". 17th c Drawing, black chalk, pen and brown ink, x cm, laid paper with watermark (unidentified), signed (by a later collector?) on lower right margin "Ab. Diepenbeek" and n. (sl. waterstain mainly along right margin and a smaller stain to left margin, old creases on lower half). Mounted on paper support. The Holy Virgin (dressed here as a nun surrounded by three winged putti with the Holy Spirit descending in a nimbus. The iconography refers to the Book of Genesis (3:15), where the trickery of the snake is undone through Virgin Mary and the birth of the Messiah.
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